Ben Gvir extends ban on visits to Palestinian prisoners, occupation continues raids in the West Bank | News

Israeli National Security Minister signed Itamar Ben Gvir On extending the decision to ban visits to Palestinian prisoners for an additional month, while the occupation continued its military campaign by storming several cities in West Bank.

The Israeli newspaper Maariv said on Friday that Ben Gvir signed an order last night extending for another month the ban on all visits to (Palestinian) detainees, noting that since the beginning of the war, prisoners have not been visited by family visits at all.

She explained that the decision to ban visits to Palestinian prisoners comes within the framework of a policy of tightening restrictions on them inside prisons.

Ben Gvir had previously ordered the tightening of restrictions on Palestinian prisoners, and took several measures that included depriving them of food, preventing them from being provided with their needs, and dispersing them between prisons on an ongoing basis, while practicing a policy of repression and torture against them.

Palestinian prisoner organizations, institutions, and lawyers say that Ben Gvir's orders have exacerbated the already poor conditions in Israeli prisons, including cutting off water and electricity, reducing the time allocated to use the toilets, and banning prisoners from showering, which has led to the spread of diseases, especially skin diseases.

Earlier the day before yesterday, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories said (B'TselemIsrael has been implementing a “structural and systematic policy of ongoing abuse and torture” of Palestinian prisoners since the start of the war in Gaza, including arbitrary violence and sexual assault.

The human rights organization stated that Palestinian prisoners are subjected to “repeated, cruel and arbitrary violence, sexual assault, humiliation, deliberate starvation, the imposition of poor sanitary conditions, sleep deprivation, the prevention of the practice of worship, the imposition of penalties for practicing it, the confiscation of all common and personal items, and the denial of appropriate medical treatment.”

Raids and arrests

This comes in light of the daily raids and arrests carried out by Israel in various cities of the West Bank, in parallel with its ongoing war on… Gaza, Last night and this morning, the occupation forces stormed several towns, including the city of Tulkarm And to the south, they surrounded the house of a freed Palestinian prisoner and arrested him.

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Palestinian sources also said that the occupation forces carried out arrests in Tamoun in Tubas in the West Bank after storming the town, following the storming of others in Tarqumiya in the district. Hebronand Araba south of the city fetal.

The day before yesterday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that a child was injured by live bullets during the occupation forces’ storming of the Askar al-Jadeed camp in Nablus, while Al Jazeera’s correspondent indicated a second injury during the storming operation.

Clashes erupted between Palestinian resistance fighters and the occupation forces during their storming of the vicinity of Balata camp, east of the city. Nablus In the West Bank, while the Palestinian Prisoners Club announced that the number of detainees in the West Bank had risen to 10,000 Palestinians.

And in Holy City Occupied, the Israeli police issued a decision yesterday to prevent the preacher Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Akram Sabri From entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque for 6 months, against the backdrop of his obituary during the Friday prayer sermon of the head of the political bureau of the movement agitation The martyr Ismail Haniyeh Who was assassinated in Tehran on July 31.

Lawyer Khaled Zabarqa explained – in a phone call with Al Jazeera – that the Israeli police had taken a decision to remove Sheikh Sabri from the Holy Mosque. The decision is administrative, not judicial, and came after a broad campaign of incitement launched by Jewish extremists against the sheikh in recent days.